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On the West Coast we have Nadya Suleiman, the 33-year-old single mom who, in addition to already having six children, recently gave birth to octuplets at the Kaiser Permamente Hospital  in Bellflower, Calfornia,. Meanwhile, in an Orlando jail cell another mom, Casey Anthony, sat alone, thinking who-knows-what even as her murdered daughter, Caylee Marie was given a public funeral.

While Ms. Suleiman is not – as far as I know – an evil person per se, she and Casey Anthony do share one trait that turns most rational people against them.  Though one is notorious for wanting to bring babies into this world and the other robbed her daughter of her right to exist, they both have a high level of egocentrism that borders on the extreme.

Curiously, while very few people support Octo-Mom in her never-ending quest for having a large family because she herself was an only child, someone, somewhere, is sending money to Casey Anthony in that Central Florida jailhouse.

Considering that Casey is not working and that her parents must be the ones paying for her defense team, how else can the woman Nancy Grace calls “Tot Mom” afford all the extra snacks and meals she’s getting in prison?  I stopped watching Nancy Grace because Caylee’s sad tale has affected me terribly even though I don’t know any of the people involved, but I doubt that Casey was able to smuggle her bank account into the Orlando jail where she’s been confined since her arrest.  But one of the last things I heard was that she has supporters who write her letters and send her cash or checks.  (I wonder if any of those are from men who hope to get in bed with her on the odd chance that she’s acquitted?)

If this is true, Casey is luckier than Octo-Mom.  If anyone is giving her any financial support after becoming the poster child for self-indulgent people, it must be the world’s best kept secret; in most of the forums and bulletin boards where Nadya Suleiman (or Suleman) is mentioned, there are salacious (and inaccurate) theories about how many men have been in bed with her.  There is also an almost unanimous sentiment that responsible Californians should not have to foot all the bills that are inevitably going to be incurred as a result of this one-woman baby boom.

So here we have a case of two Generation Me moms.  One is a bit obsessed with populating the Earth by herself no matter what, while the other was so self-absorbed that she took her daughter’s life to have no responsibilities.